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BAKED CREAMY MONTEREY CHICKEN & PASTA CASSEROLE
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Mar 14, 2025
BAKED CREAMY MONTEREY CHICKEN & PASTA CASSEROLE Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/monterey-chicken-spaghetti-casserole/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media Facebook @ https://facebook.com/catherinesplates/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvgtfqhHTKI5kymcLKeyxg Pinterest @ https://www.pinterest.com/CatherinesPlates/ TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@catherinesplates Rumble @ https://rumble.com/c/c-1642522
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welcome back everyone today I'm going to
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show you how to make a creamy montere
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chicken and pasta bake it's like a
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casserole also there's lots of good
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things going on in it we're going to
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have the chicken we've got pasta we've
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got some spinach going on in it some
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creaminess some flavors we're going to
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put it all together of course there's
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going to be some cheese in it I know
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it's the holidays and you know we're
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cooking a lot of holiday stuff you know
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you still got to eat before the holidays
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so I'm going to give you something nice
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and warm comforting it's really easy to
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put together and that's what we like
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I've got about three chicken breast here
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these came off of a rotisserie chicken
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two of them in fact it's just the white
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meat and I'm chopping it up into
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bite-sized pieces now rotisserie chicken
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is a fully cooked flavor to chicken you
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can pick one up at your grocery store
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right in the deli section there they're
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so good
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you're going to need about three cups of
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your cooked chicken for this recipe now
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you can make your chicken through the
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crock pot through your instant pot you
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can bake your chicken you can boil your
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chicken you just want to make sure that
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it has lots of good flavor to it to help
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with this casserole okay we've got it
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all chopped up I'm going to place this
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in a
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bowl a very large bowl because we got a
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lot of things to put in and mix in
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this will be plenty for the
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casserole I've got a pot of water coming
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to a
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boil I just placed the lid on brings it
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to a boil faster we're going to add in
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about half a tablespoon of
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salt this will help flavor our
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pasta and that's what you want a good
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healthy amount
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there I'm using pen pasta you can use
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any type of pasta you can even use
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spaghetti which I've used one time
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before when I was making this dish cost
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for about 8
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[Applause]
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O I'm going to put in about yeah about
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10 oz went in that's fine we're going to
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stir this up for about 30 seconds
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that'll help keep the pasta from
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sticking we're going to cook this for
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the directions on the back of the
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package it's about 11 minutes for all
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Dente and then we'll drain the
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pasta to the already cooked chicken in a
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large bowl we're going to add 10 oz of
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chopped spinach this comes Frozen I'm
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going to take it out of the package put
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it on a cutting board and we're going to
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chop it up there we go this is partially
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thawed just going to take a knife chop
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it
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up now when I say partially thawed I had
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it my refrigerator for one day just to
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kind of loosen it up a little bit now
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it's already chopped spinach but because
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it's still kind of tha I'm going to chop
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it up good here now what I'm going to do
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is just bring over my Sie sifter put my
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spinach in
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it here we
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go I'm going to take it over to my sink
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and I'm going to use a fork and I'm
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going to squeeze any juice out of the
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spinach before we add it to the
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chicken wasn't a
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lot but if this is really Tha then you
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would really have a lot of liquid in
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there it'll come out in the casserole
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and that's totally
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fine right let's mix that up looks good
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in there doesn't it to the spinach and
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chicken we're going to add some
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creaminess to it I've got two cans of
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cream of chicken these are 10.5 o size
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cans
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and we're using two of
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them this is a good one you
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guys I'm sharing this casserole with my
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kids so they'll be coming by to pick up
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half of this they're only getting half
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though cuz I definitely want some
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leftovers with this one it makes a lot
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this is a 9 by3 casserole
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today all right that's that's
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one let's get the second
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one okay we're going to add in one cup
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of milk I'm just going to pour it
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into my can
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here and then we'll put the rest of it
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into the other can oh we just want to
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get all that excess
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out oh
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yeah here we go
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I've got one cup of water I'm going to
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make some chicken broth I'm using
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the better than bullion this is a
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seasoned roast chicken
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flavor all right that's my spaghetti
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saying that it's
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done all right let's whisk that together
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y'all this stuff is am amazing it smells
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so
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delicious once you open it you want to
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make sure you have it in your
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refrigerator that way doesn't go bad
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okay we're going to add that
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[Music]
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in now you can use regular broth that's
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totally fine regular chicken broth if
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you want to do that okay we're going to
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go in with some garlic powder straight
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across the
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top season it up this is all our flavor
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oh I need to fill
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that onion
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[Music]
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powder I would say about A4 to half a
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teaspoon definitely on the onion powder
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some salt not too much we've got
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condensed soup in there we're going to
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give that a try anyway make sure all our
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flavors are wory we need
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them and some black pepper that I'm
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cracking in here
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I don't know what it is but I do love to
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bite into cracked black
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pepper okay all right let's mix this all
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together there's a few more things
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happening it's going to be good I want
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to start combining things here
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though all right let's get rid of all of
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this you know what I want to do really
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quick here is grab a spoon while I'm
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right here in the drawer give that a
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taste especially that sauce there let's
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see
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M make sure our flavors oh they are that
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is
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fabulous I'm not going to add any more
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salt to this because we do have a few
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more ingredients that have salt in it
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that'll help with
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that we're going to be shredding up some
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cheese I've got montere jack
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cheese just going to cut this into
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pieces and then we'll run it
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through our
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Chopper there we
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go woo
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fresh nothing like fresh cheese
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right right we'll do the last one
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here there we
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go now we're only going to put half of
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this in the mixture and then we'll save
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the other half for the top of
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it nothing like fresh
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cheese there we go we'll mix that in
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we're going to add in our
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pasta make sure it's nice and drained
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y'all aren't going to see this coming
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right frenches fried onions this is a 6
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oz container we're going to place half
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of this
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inside we're going to save the other
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half for the
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top here we go mix that all
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together oh smells good just give me a
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spoon now
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we're going to bring over our 9 by3
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baking
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dish we're going to spray the baking
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dish with some non-stick cooking spray
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woo that was a new one
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anyway came out like crazy didn't it all
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right we're going to take our mixture
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and we're going to pour it all into the
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baking
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dish doesn't that look
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good we're going to spread out
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evenly we're going to take the rest of
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our shredded cheese and we're going to
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top our casserole with
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it let's just do
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that and then we're going to take our
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frenches fried
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onions put more across the top
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we're going to bake this in our
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preheated oven at 350° for 1 hour until
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everything is heated through and that
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top is nice and golden brown that cheese
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will be melted I'll come back going to
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give this a try for
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you okay we've pulled this out of the
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oven I let it rest for a little bit
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we're diving
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in woo
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get my plate
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ready
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oo creamy goodness right
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there my creamy montere chicken pasta
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casserole I'm getting a fork I'm going
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to dive in for
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you look how creamy that is
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M y'all that is good that is
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delicious y'all want to
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bite you got to make your own casserole
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go check it out on my recipe blog
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Katherine plates.com you can find it
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over
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there that's delicious nice and warm
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comforting for these holidays coming up
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feed your family before the holidays
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before well feed them during fall and
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winter oh this will warm anybody up all
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right give me a thumbs up on this one
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make sure you share this recipe so
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somebody can make it for
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you all right I'll see y'all on the next
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episode bye
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